Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 09:15
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.4 1-Core 136 2-Core 266 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 508 8-Core 770 79% 639 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 119 Parallax 116 90% 115 fps	MRender 96.4 Gravity 102 Splatting 93.6 79% 97.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX200 1TB-$270 3,707 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 156GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 18287 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 95 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 28 (AE) Unknown 100 100 55 (B4) Unknown 0 0 10457 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 47 227634774049 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 33165709378 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1037139448 (F8) Unknown 100 100 958939446	72.1% Very good	Read 462 Write 266 Mixed 323 77% 350 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 85.5 4K Mixed 16.4 105% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 91.4 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 29.7 59% 115 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 104%
Kingston HyperX 120GB 3,401 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 503ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 9909411 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -109152298798021 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 96 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 200 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 46 60132556829 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9909411 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9909411 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9909411 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 47323 (EA) Unknown 0 0 35070 (F1) Unknown 0 0 35070 (F2) Unknown 0 0 58895	63.3% Good	Read 466 Write 136 Mixed 211 59% 271 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 96.7 4K Mixed 13.1 106% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 136 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 34.3 54% 102 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 81%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 100GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 121 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 75 70 7727 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14621 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 30222 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 670 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159544346 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 227 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14710	61% Good	Read 90.5 Write 122 Mixed 141 90% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.65 155% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GB-$210 3,970 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	MC Read 37.2 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 31.9 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 37.6 SC Mixed 28.5 82% 28.6 GB/s	Latency 58.8 68% 58.8 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 110%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,551x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	596x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	890x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	439x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	313x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	344x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16